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    440 THE LEADER. [No. 372, Saturday

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    NAVAL AND MILITARY. Safety oit tub On ki...

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    MISCELLANEOUS. The Count.—The Queen, who...

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    Gatherings From The Law And Police Court...

    Baron Bramwell ) , some convictions were affirmed and others quashed . Among the latter was the case of the Queen v . Lewis . The prisoner had been indicted for manslaughter . All the parties were foreigners , the vessel was foreign , and the cruelty was exercised on board that vessel . The court , therefore , had taken time for considering whether this was an offence for which the prisoner could be tried at Liverpool , in which town the deceased had actually died . Mr . Justice Willes said the court felt that , had the death occurred at sea , the case would not have beeu cognizable in this country , and that the mere fact of the party not having died until he arrived at Liverpool did not alter the law . Therefore , the conviction must be quashed .

    In the Queen v . Fitch , the prisoner had been indicted for stealing a bonnet and a pair of goloshes . It appeared that the man lodged with one Reeves and his wile ; and it was arranged between him and Mrs . Reeves that they should leave the house and live together . Fitch left the house , and afterwards went to his work ; the wife then took a bandbox containing her bonnet and goloshes , and went from the house and joined her paramour . They were followed ; Fitch was found carrying the bandbox , and he was apprehended for stealing the contents . He was tried before Mr . Justice Erie , and convicted ; but a point was reserved as to whether this was a larceny . The court now decided that it was not : and the conviction was therefore quashed .

    A curious bit of lawyer ' s morality was exhibited in the case of the Queen v . Sherwood . The prisoner had been charged with obtaining money under false pretences ; that is to say , with professing to sell eighteen hundredweight of coals when he had only given fourteen hundredweight . Mr . Kettle appeared for the prisoner , and urged that this was only a misrepresentation as to quantity , which was not punishable ; if it were , any misrepresentation would be a false pretence . —The Chief Justice : " Why should it not be ? It would be a very salutary application of the law ; it would be a most fortunate thing . There is , however , a case in point ; but I doubt very much whether at that time the subject had received so much consideration as it since has , or the Judges would not so have decided . We are here only five ; and therefore it will be better that the case should be argued before the fifteen Judges . " _

    The cab case arising out of Sir Charles Napier ' s election for Southwark has again been brought forward . Syer , the man employed by the committee , was summoned by a cabman , named Wise , for sixteen shillings . The magistrate ordered Syer to pay the amount , but gave him a week to do it in , and recommended him in the meanwhile to apply to Sir Charles Napier ' s committee for the amount , and , failing that , to summon the parties in the County Court . The cabman on a subsequent day complained that it was very hard he should have to wait so long . He wanted the money for his family ; and he had actually paid the tolls on the election day out of his own pocket . —Mr . James , the chairman of Sir Charles Napier ' s committee , has written to the Times to say that Syer engaged more cabs than he was ordered to engage , but that Sir Charles will noc allow the cabmen to suffer .

    In the case of Denis , v . Morley and Cobbett , which we related in our last issue , Mrs . Cobbett on Monday , in the Court of Common Pleas , moved for a habeas corpus to bring up the body of her husband , now in the Queen's Prison , in order that he might be enabled to move for a rule for a new trial . The lady exhibited some technical knowledge of the mode of procedure , corrected the Lord Chief Justice when lie said he feared he had no power to grant such a habeas , and observed that all the counsel she had spoken to on the subject had said that , though thq was in the right , she would never succeed , because the Judges are against her . She did not succeed in her then application , the habeas being refused .

    At the trial the other day , in the Glasgow Spring Circuit Court , of an Irishman for robbing the tea shop of a Chinaman , the point was raised whether , as England is at war with China , the prosecution could bo sustained . The Judge decided that the trial was perfectly correct , and the accused was found Guilty , and sentenced to four years' penal servitude . In the Court of Bankruptcy , on Wednesday , Mr . G . C . Franghiadi , representing the firm of C . Franghiadi , Sons , in the Greek trade , who suspended on the 20 th of February , passed his final examination . The assignees wore quite satisfied with the atato of his accounts .

    The choice of assignees under the eatuto of Colonel Waugh , tho lato Chairman of the London and Eastern Banking Company , was perfected in tho Court of Bankruptcy on Thursday . It was mentioned that Colonel Waugh , though still absent , would surrender to his bankruptcy . —A petition waa hoard on tho Bumo day for winding up tho London aud Birmingham Iron and Hardware Company ( limited)—tho drat proceeding of thia nature under tho Joint Stock Companies Act of I 860 .

    440 The Leader. [No. 372, Saturday

    440 THE LEADER . [ No . 372 , Saturday

    Naval And Military. Safety Oit Tub On Ki...

    NAVAL AND MILITARY . Safety oit tub On kid a . —A despatch , dated Alexandria , April 28 rd , saya : — " Tho European , wltli tho Australian mails , arrived at Suez on the 19 th lnst ., bringing tho Onoida ' s passengers , together with her own , and gold of tho value of 60 , 000 / . Tho Onolda had put back

    to King George ' s Sound . She broke her sole-plate and crank-pin four hundred miles north of Cape Lewin . She arrived in the Sound thirty-six hours after the departure of the Simla , and left for Sydney on the 22 nd March . " Admiral Lord Lyons has been cruising with the Brunswick , Centaur , and Conqueror in the offing of Malta since the 23 rd ult ., and was expected to enter port on the 30 th . Tim Sultan ' s Military Present to the Queen . — The gun which the Turkish Sultan has sent to Queen Victoria was landed on Friday week at Portsmouth . " It is of cast brass , " says the Times , " and reported to be about two hundred years old ; it is thirteen feet five inches in length , and fires a shot of between eighteen and twenty-four pounds . It bears the following inscription in Turkish : — ' A present from his Imperial Majesty Sultan Abdul Medjid t , o her Britannic Majesty Queen Victoria , 1857 . ' The gun is of beautiful mould , and is covered with designs and emblems of great artistic execution , and with ornamental embossings , chiefly of Oriental flowers . There are other inscriptions upon the piece in the Arabic language . The carriage is of walnut , with wheels of oak , all elaborately carved . " The NottMAN . —The screw steamer Norman , Captain Vallinr , from Rio Janeiro , bound for Cowes , put into Falmouth last Saturday evening short of fuel . She left that port ( savs a despatch from Falmouth ) on the 14 th of March ; Balria , 23 rd ; and Pernambuco , 27 th . The fever , which was abating at the two former ports , had broken out with renewed virulence at the last-mentioned place , and the mortality was great . Captain Vallint reports having discovered the actual locality , on the 30 th ult ., of the Chapel Rocks in lat . 47 * 30 N ., and long . 8 * 5 W ., which he describes as about thirty feet long , of a flat surface , and immersed under the sea level to the extent of two or three feet . Twenty-four hours previously they had been falling in with a large quantity of timber within forty miles S . W . of the rock , which appeared to have been only a short time in the water . Coast Defences in Scotland . —The War Office is busied at present putting the coast defences of Scotland into repair and adding to their strength . At Aberdeen , three new batteries , manned by sixteen guns , are to be erected , by which the harbour and town will be defended from any attack on the seaboard . Lord Palmerston has sent a number of Russian guns as war trophies to Aberdeen , Elgin , and other towns in the north . Collision at Sea . — The fine . American ship Andrew Foster , which sailed from New York for Liverpool on the 1 st ult ., came into collision with the Tuscarorsi , bound outward for Philadelphia on the 28 th ult ., between Holyhead and Tuskar , when the Andrew Foster sank . The crew and passengers , the captain ' s wife and two children , took to the boats , and were picked up by the schooner Little Fred , from Rio Grande for Liverpool , and were subsequently transferred to the steam tug Sea King , which brought them to the latter port . TheTuscarora was so much damaged that she was obliged to put back . The steamship Peninsula came into collision with the schooner Imperial Prince c ft" the O . vcns on Friday week . The schooner went down in a quarter of an hour , with two of the crew on board . The Peninsula had her bows stove in .

    Another Encampment . —It has been deemed advisable that the troops in garrison at Pembroke should be encamped this summer at a short distance from the dockyard , and for this purpose land has been selected at a place called Freshwater-east—a spot about seven miles from Pembroke . The customary tenders for the supply of firewood and straw for bedding are to be immediately sent in , so that by June it is likely the troops will be under canvas . The place fixed upon is exceedingly open and healthy , nnd adjacent to tho coast , so that there is every probability of tho health of the troops being properly kept up . Freshwater-cast was the spot selected as the site for tho new . musketry drill , in which the soldiers will doubtless be properly initiated . — Times .

    Mokk Lakok Stkameks . —The Mersey , 40 , the largo steam-frigate building at Chatham Dockyard , is progressing rapidly , and already some idea can be formed of her immense , size . She will bo tho longest steamfrigate in tho service , being considerably longer than the Royal Sovereign , 101 , recently launched at Portsmouth . The following arc tho principal dimensions of the Mersey : —Length over all , 33 ( Jft . Gin . ; length between porpendiculars , 800 ft . ; length of keel for tonnage , 20-lft . 4 in . ; extreme breadth , 02 ft . ; breadth for tonnage , 51 ft . 3 in . ; breadth moulded , 60 ft . 8 in . ; depth of held , 19 ft . lOin . ; burden , 3720 70-94 tons . Her engines will bo of 1000 horse-power . —Two largo vessels , which htivo boon nearly constructed at Chatham , will bo launched during tho present year ; they aro tho Howo , which was originally designed aa a sailing vessel , but has been altered to a 90-gun acrow steamer , and tho

    Charybdis , 21 , screw stoam corvette , was commenceu March of last year , from tho designs of Captain Sir Baldwin Walker , Surveyor of tho Navy . —/ rfewi . , Mu . Fkkdeiuok Pkicl has resigned tho oifico of Undor-Sccrotary for tho War Department , which ho will bo succeeded by Sir John Hamsdon . Sir Robert Pool is said to have resigned his position as a Lord of tho Admiralty . REiNirouoicMKNTfl vok China , —Early on Monday afternoon , tho Furious steam-frigate loft Plymouth for

    China , accompanied b y the Surprise and Mohawk despatch boats , Cormorant , Algerine , Lee , Banterer Clown , Kestrel , Drake , Janus , Firm , Watchful , Wood ' cock , Slaney , and Leven gunboats , and Hesper steam transport . They will probably first rendez vous at Madeira . They left with fine wind down Channel . Another Troop-ship Disaster . —A correspondent of the Times thus describes the last voyage of the new steam troop-ship Urgent to Barbadoes , wi th the 49 th Regiment on board : — " She left Spithead on the 28 th of February , sprang a dangerous leak in the middle of the Bay of Biscay , put into Corunna on the 3 rd of March in a half-sinking state , and would certainly have foundered , but for calm weather and t he daring act of

    an assistant-engineer , who repeatedly , at the risk of his life , set free the valves of the engine-pumps at a time when the water had risen to within a few inches of the fires , and when the deck-pumps were found totally insufficient , though worked for hours . In ease of extremity her boats would not have held one-third of the number of men on board . She put into Madeira on the 9 th , took up her screw in the trades , put her screw down again when the trades fell light , broke some of the engine gear almost immediately after , took twenty-four hours to repair , tried again , and snapped again . Finally went into Carlisle Bay under sail on the 27 th of March . " This is confirmed by the letter of an officer belonging to the 49 th .

    A Boat Capsized . —A melancholy accident occurred at St . Thomas ' s on the 11 th ult ., by which four lives were lost . The third officer of the Magdalena ( Mr . Hushnan , son of Dr . Bushnan ) , and six of the crew , were sent ashore in the Wye ' s lifeboat for some sand for the use of the ship . The boat was loaded too deeply , and on coining off , about a mile from the shore , she upset and went down . Three of the men and the officer were drowned ; the other three succeeded in reaching the shore . The names of the men who were drowned are Alfred Downton , David Kimber , and George Carter , all belonging to Southampton . Wreck of the Steamer Amelia . —A Court of Inquiry ordered by the Board of Trade sat yosterilay at the liristol Council-house , to investigate the circumstances under which the steamer Amelia , plying between Liverpool and Bristol , was lost off St . Gowan ' s-head , near Milford , on the morning of the 29 th of March . The main result of the inquiry was thus set forth : — " In the opinion of the justices , the accident arose in consequence ef the master either mistaking the land he made or misjudging his distance from it , and disregarding the u . < e of the lead , which , with reference to the fog which then prevailed , ought to have been specially attended to . "

    Miscellaneous. The Count.—The Queen, Who...

    MISCELLANEOUS . The Count . —The Queen , who has been sufficiently recovered this week to take drives in the open air , left London for Osborne , Isle of Wight , on Thursday morning , and reached her place of destination at about halfpast two in tho afternoon . She was accompanied by Prince Albert , the younger members of the family , and the Court . While briefly stopping at Portsmouth , th ^ Queen looked at the brass gun which has been presented to her by the Sultan of Turkey . Prince Albert rutumeu to London the next day ( yesterday ) , to be present at tue funeral of tho Duchess of Gloucester . National Education . — -A deputation of the Metropolitan Church of England Schoolmasters' Association waited on the Right Hon . W . Cowpor , Vice-President ot the Committee of Council on Education , at the lnvy

    Council-office , last Saturday , for tho purpose of presenting a memorial to the Committee complaining of certain regulations established by the minutes of tho Committee of Council , which materially affect the interests ol tUe schoolmasters of England . Tho memorial set forth ive distinct matters of grievance—first , that the amount ui stipend payable to male pupil teachers is msullieienr , and tho mode of payment inconvenient , the tcaciicis often having to wait for their money above nlteen months ; secondly , that the school masters and mistresses who prepare tho pupil teachers arc themselves inadequately paid ; thirdly , that tho Committee of Council had laid down a regulation which precludes tlio pajinont of all sums duo to tho schoolmasters on leuy %

    their schools , by way of augmentations and gnitm ' < - > for a less term than ono year ; fourthly , that V » ° BCll °° " musters aro not allowed to employ remuneratively ini time out of school hours ; fifthly , and laHtly , tJn » t tner is a degree of unfairness in tho distribution ol wj capitation grant since its extension to all the imtion schools throughout England and Wales . Mr . Cowm . assured tho deputation that all theso point- «» J « receive his most attentive and dcliborato ^ "f 1110 ™""" , but ho did not hold out any hope of tho « JJ grievances being altered , and scorned upon tlic ¦ i ' to consider that tho present arrangements arc ju « i (

    necessary . _ _ „ ,,, „ tmt necessary . rt »] . „ Thm First Day of this Session . — It apponi « tnji tho statement which wo inudo last week , upon authority of a daily contemporary , that J-oru . Russell waa not prcent on tho first day of tl »«» ' « ia incorrect . It is now stated by tho aaine J » » "J / l 0 hi 8 Lordship , together with tho other mombeis ior

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), May 9, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09051857/page/8/